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A site dedicated to people who enjoy playing fantasy sportsThu, 11 Dec 2014 13:25:13 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.3Fantasy Review: MyFantasyLeague’s MFL10shttp://fantasysports.org/myfantasyleague-10s/
http://fantasysports.org/myfantasyleague-10s/#commentsSat, 17 Aug 2013 05:13:22 +0000http://fantasysports.org/?p=3643Are you a degenerate? Do you fall asleep at night contemplating the value of Greg Olsen in the 8th versus Jordan Cameron in the 12th? Better yet, do you view Fantasy Football as an extension of your football knowledge, or an extension of your knowledge in strategy and gambling? For those who are confident in ...

]]>Are you a degenerate? Do you fall asleep at night contemplating the value of Greg Olsen in the 8th versus Jordan Cameron in the 12th? Better yet, do you view Fantasy Football as an extension of your football knowledge, or an extension of your knowledge in strategy and gambling? For those who are confident in their player evaluation and who have a background in poker, MFL10s from MyFantasyLeague.com, are basically a dream come true.

Easy to Play: MFL10s

When I found out that these leagues I existed, I almost passed out from excitement. I could play in a league where all I had to do was draft the best possible players according to my projections and the best starting lineup would be processed each week and I could compete against the general populace?

Sounds way too good to be true, but it’s not.

There are two types of drafts. One is the draft-only setting that I prefer. In that scenario, all that the owner is responsible for is a $10 payment and then participation in a 20-round, slow, email draft where they select a group of players for a weekly starting lineup of 1 QB, 2 RBs, 2 WRs, 1 TE, 1 WR/RB flex, a kicker and a defense.

Draft-Only Format

In the MFL10s draft-only leagues, your team is scored by the software automatically putting in the highest scoring lineup for you each and every week.

There are no waiver moves, no trades, no adds or drops. That means in the draft-only format, you have to take at least two quarterbacks, two kickers and two defenses, to cover bye weeks. There is a different kind of research that goes into succeeding at these leagues.

For example, knowing the general strength of a division’s offenses is more helpful than determining a projection of points scored for a defense.

Two defenses that I like to target are the Houston Texans and Denver Broncos. The Texans get to face the Jacksonville Jaguars and Tennessee Titans twice a year; both of those offenses suffer from lack of talent at the quarterback position, which is a pretty good indicator of how they will be against Fantasy defenses.

The Broncos are obvious. They get to face the awful, awful Oakland Raiders and the terrible San Diego Chargers. Even the Kansas City Chiefs are capable of having a complete clunker with Alex Smith at the helm. Andy Reid is no stranger to dumpster fire games.

In this format, running back and wide receiver depth becomes even more important. If your first-round running back goes down, there is no scouring the waiver wire for replacements. Since eight roster spots automatically go to 2 QBs, 2 TEs, 2 Ks and 2 DSTs, that means only 12 possible slots remain for wide receivers and running backs. I would recommend using all of those slots and not drafting a third quarterback or tight end.

Handcuffing becomes a little bit more attractive as an option, especially on players where their handcuff comes particularly cheap. Jamaal Charles and Kniles Davis, Maurice Jones-Drew and Justin Forsett, and DeMarco Murray and Lance Dunbar are all solid options because the handcuffs are so inexpensive.

MFL10s Traditional Leagues

MyFantasyLeague also offers MFL10s in a more traditional weekly management setting. In that format, the roster settings and scoring rules stay the same, but each week you are expected to start a traditional lineup.

In the weekly management setting, there are also waivers to be processed each week and you can add and drop players. This changes the strategy up quite a bit, as it makes streaming quarterbacks, tight ends, defenses and kickers more of a possibility.

The difference from the best-ball format makes the weekly management leagues very different in terms of strategy and most mainstream Fantasy advice applies to these leagues. The main difference in these weekly management leagues is that trading between teams is not allowed.

What’s five times better than MFL10s? … MFL50s!

For the true Fantasy freaks, MyFantasyLeague.com also provides the option to play MFL50s, which function the exact same as MFL10s but the entry fee is — you guessed it — $50.

Just as online poker players used to make their livings through choosing games wisely, those who hope to profit off of Fantasy Football that choose these games to supplement their incomes will be pleasantly surprised with the results.

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http://fantasysports.org/fantasy-buzzer-review/#commentsThu, 08 Aug 2013 21:00:34 +0000http://fantasysports.org/?p=3431I am a fantasy sports degenerate of the highest order. On a Friday night, you are liable to find me sitting at my laptop, boring over a spreadsheet, or going through twitter, desperately combing for fantasy football news. I probably don’t live a very healthy lifestyle; luckily for you, you don’t have to go through ...

I am a fantasy sports degenerate of the highest order. On a Friday night, you are liable to find me sitting at my laptop, boring over a spreadsheet, or going through twitter, desperately combing for fantasy football news. I probably don’t live a very healthy lifestyle; luckily for you, you don’t have to go through the same rigorous time commitment to know all of the happenings of the fantasy football world. Fantasy Buzzer is here to do it for. So what, exactly is Fantasy Buzzer? Well, the company explains it this way.

Fantasy Buzzer is the first service that simplifies fantasy football team management by importing your teams from any major fantasy football provider (Yahoo, ESPN, NFL, CBS) and aggregating news articles catered to your teams. The service sends the user up-to-date personalized alerts or “buzzers,” including injury alerts and roster recommendations via push notifications and or email. We also feature a community section that is specifically designed to answer non-trivial questions like who to start this week or if a trade offer is fair. This is a perfect service for fantasy sports novices, as well as diehard enthusiasts with multiple teams across different Fantasy Football providers. Fantasy Buzzer helps fantasy sports buffs manage their teams and make opportune decisions through real time team alerts, personalized news, and community feedback

Essentially, this is the perfect tool for someone who doesn’t make their life trolling the internet for fantasy football news. Busy week at the office? Just check Fantasy Buzzer out on the iPad before you crash for the night and you’ll be caught up on whats happening with your players. Midterms making it so that you can’t research to see if a trade value is fair? Throw it up to the community on Fantasy Buzzer and get some unbiased opinions.

Perhaps the real value in the Fantasy Buzzer service is that they will even send you text message alerts, personalized to your lineups, on Sunday mornings. So, if you were out celebrating on Saturday night and only have 15 minutes before kickoff to finalize your lineups, the Buzzer guys have your back. Maybe you made the mistake of drafting Ryan Mathews at some point. When he inevitably gets injured, you’ll be able to find out very early in the morning which way his questionable status is leaning.

Don’t have time or desire to be a degenerate? Then check out Fantasy Buzzer.

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http://fantasysports.org/average-draft-position-discrepancies/#commentsThu, 01 Aug 2013 22:18:22 +0000http://fantasysports.org/?p=3255Last week, I took a look at Average Draft Positions throughout the 5 major sites that offer live and mock drafts detailing where ADP is compiled. Now, depending on where you draft, there will be certain players that are clear avoids due to their site ADP, and players that can be selected a round or ...

Now, depending on where you draft, there will be certain players that are clear avoids due to their site ADP, and players that can be selected a round or 2 later, due to where they are being drafted on a particular site. What follows are 5 players with large gaps in ADP from site to site.

5 Players With Average Draft Position Discrepancies

Mr. Bryant is my No. 2 wide receiver and No. 8 overall player. On the other sites, he is going as high as 15, and even that is a value; on CBS, however, there is a real chance that you can start your draft off with Jamaal Charles, LeSean McCoy or even C.J Spiller and then select Bryant with your second-round selection.

While I wouldn’t recommend taking Cam Newton in the 3rd, he is my #2 quarterback and has the best chance of any player in the game at finishing with the most overall fantasy points at the end of the year. At 48th overall on the calculator, it would seem to indicate the savvier players are ignoring Newton’s obvious upside in favor of selecting mid-tier wide receivers and running backs.

I didn’t even believe my eyes when I saw this one. 58th overall? That’s squarely in the late 4th, early 5th territory. That means that in leagues hosted on ESPN, you can wait, wait, wait on running backs. It’s theoretically possible to start your draft Calvin Johnson, Dez Bryant, Reggie Bush, Lamar Miller. If any team in a money league actually had that lineup, I’d give them a 20% chance of taking the championship, even before accounting for skill.

Cecil Shorts, WR, JAC: All Sites

Mr. Shorts is being selected in the 80′s on ESPN, FFC and CBS. This just makes drafting too easy. Shorts is the perfect candidate for a high-volume, high-efficiency WR2. Drafters on these sites could draft 4 running backs, Graham/Gronk, and even a quarterback before taking a shot on Shorts.

There is no denying the talent. Britt, if healthy for 16 games, will easily finish inside the top 20 for wide receivers. He is the perfect mix of risk and reward and ESPN prices that risk in completely by allowing him to be taken in the 10th round.

Hopefully, we’ve helped you clear up some of the strange Average Draft Position numbers you’ve seen around the web! Make sure you check the ADP on the draft services you use and compare them to your rankings.

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http://fantasysports.org/7-great-fantasy-football-podcasts/#commentsThu, 01 Aug 2013 19:43:59 +0000http://fantasysports.org/?p=3246Don’t have time to sit down and read the hundreds of quality Fantasy Football articles published every single day? It’s cool. In 2013, the most efficient way to get your Fantasy news and analysis is to listen to Fantasy Football podcasts while on the car, while playing some 2K13 or Madden, or while getting ready ...

]]>Don’t have time to sit down and read the hundreds of quality Fantasy Football articles published every single day? It’s cool. In 2013, the most efficient way to get your Fantasy news and analysis is to listen to Fantasy Football podcasts while on the car, while playing some 2K13 or Madden, or while getting ready to fall asleep for the night.

The 7 Best Fantasy Football Podcasts

There are a lot of podcasts out there, but here are my seven favorites for your listening pleasure.

Rumford Johnny and Ryan Forbes host the most entertaining, star studded podcast of the entire industry. Weekly guests have included Field Yates, Gregg Rosenthal, Evan Silva and Pat Daughtery. Heavy on the analysis, but also heavy on the humor, the 2 Mugs pod is the absolute cream of the crop.

Matthew Berry, Nate Ravitz, Stephania Bell and PodVader are in charge of the Motherships fantasy-centric podcast and they do a hell of a job week in and week out. While they have been light on the shows this offseason while Matthew has written and promoted his book, as the season gets closer, the crew will be providing daily insight for the both the casual and more serious fantasy owner.

One of the only fantasy football podcasts that actually goes year round! Cecil Lammey, Sigmund Bloom, Matt Waldman, and Jene Bramel provide analysis every Thursday night, all year long. Sigmund Bloom hosts my personal favorite show, On The Couch, which is normally posted Tuesday nights. If you approach the game from a deeper level, On The Couch is for you.

If you subscribe to the PFF feed on iTunes, you get 4 different podcasts. The Dynasty Slant, with Scott Sprat and Bryan Fontaine, the Quick Snap with Alex Miglio and Austin Lee, the Mike and Taz show and the The Nickel with Jeff Ratcliffe. All of the podcasts are heavy on the analysis and exactly what the hardcore fantasy player needs.

The finest dynasty-centric podcast on the market. Doug Veatch and Chad Parsons bring their metric-centered analysis to the dynasty world and listeners will easily see the advantages on their dynasty squads as the offseason progresses.

Not into drafting a quarterback in the first round? Want to know the best streaming defenses? C.D Carter and JJ Zachariason provide a hilarious entertaining podcast with recommendations each and every week on what players and defenses to start each week.

Allow me a little bit of shameless plugging. If you have time to listen to all of those other Fantasy Football podcasts, then you may have some time to listen to myself and Coleman diagnosing and analyzing all aspects of the Fantasy Football world.

Editor’s Note: Mattek obviously forgot to list my “Fantasy Fatcast” podcast that I do with SI.com’s Eric Mack each week! Honest mistake. Also, we’re not as good as these seven anyway — but we’re working on it!

Got some great Fantasy Football podcasts you listen to that I missed? Comment below and let us all know!

]]>http://fantasysports.org/7-great-fantasy-football-podcasts/feed/0The Worst Rookie Fantasy Football Running Back Seasons Of The Last Decadehttp://fantasysports.org/the-12-worst-rookie-fantasy-football-running-back-seasons/
http://fantasysports.org/the-12-worst-rookie-fantasy-football-running-back-seasons/#commentsMon, 29 Jul 2013 16:35:30 +0000http://fantasysports.org/?p=3089You guys pretty stoked to draft Le’Veon Bell in the 6th round of your fantasy football draft? Montee Ball in the 5th? They seem like great values at the moment; and they probably will be. Fantasy football teams can made my these rookie runners by they can also be demolished by them. However, last years ...

]]>You guys pretty stoked to draft Le’Veon Bell in the 6th round of your fantasy football draft? Montee Ball in the 5th? They seem like great values at the moment; and they probably will be. Fantasy football teams can made my these rookie runners by they can also be demolished by them.

However, last years incredible trio of rookie runners (Doug Martin, Trent Richardson, and Alfred Morris) seem to have changed people’s opinions and made fantasy drafters forget just how awful drafting a rookie fantasy football Running Back can go.

Check out this list of running backs with high pedigree who disappointed in their rookie year:

1. David Wilson/Lamar Miller/Ronnie Hillman

While no one was drafting these guys like uber-studs last year, all of them had an ADP that included some opportunity and none of them posted a startable fantasy game until Wilson in week 16. By that time, if you were holding any of these players still, you have greatly hurt your roster.

2. Mark Ingram

They traded up for him! First round pick! Most explosive offense in the league. If you ever want to spend a hilarious evening laughing at the misfortune of others, go look at the Football Guys Message Boards and find the Mark Ingram thread. The 474 yards and 5 touchdowns that he posted didn’t even come close to meeting the value owners had set for him.

3. Ryan Mathews

Mathews learned how to disappoint fantasy owners early. After being selected in the 1st round by the Chargers, he promptly was being drafted in the 2nd and 3rd round of standard leagues and responded with a 678 yard season where he missed 7 games.

4. Donald Brown

Sensing a trend here? Brown was another 1st round selection, heading into an explosive offense with a very cerebral QB who was ready to use a solid pass catching back again. Instead, Brown played in only 11 games and had less than 400 total yards.

5. Reggie Bush

This might be the most disappointing season on the entire list. Bush was fresh off of winning the Heisman, was going to play for Brees and Payton, and he was ready to tear the scene up. Instead, he settled in as a bit player, and couldn’t live up to expectations even though he posted a top 20 fantasy season. That’s tough life, Reggie.

6. Laurence Maroney

Retrospectively, it’s pretty easy to see that Maroney just wasn’t any good. That didn’t stop fantasy owners form thinking he was the next Corey Dillon and then being disappointed when he couldn’t reach 1,000 total yards or double digit touchdowns.

7. Cedric Benson

Who would think that anyone could be more disappointing than Ronnie Brown? Here ya have it. After the Bears took Benson with the 4th pick in the draft, Benson played in only 9 games all year, gained 272 rushing yards, and didn’t score any touchdowns at all. That’s straight worst case scenario.

8. T.J Duckett

A common thread through these disappointments is injury and that’s exactly what happened to Duckett. He got selected in the first round by the Falcons, but that couldn’t get him playing in more than 11 games and capped him off less than 600 yards.

9. Willie Green

Cleveland was finally gonna have something nice! Wait. No. No they weren’t. The expectations for Green were high, but he barely scraped to 1,000 yards and 8 touchdowns. For a rookie running back to justify the bright-eyed enthusiasm, they have to get to 10 touchdowns or 1,400 combo yards. Just the nature of the running back position raises the bar for the young guys.

10. Deuce McAllister

May be the best name in this list, or all of football. True story: I bought a Deuce McAllister game-worn jersey card his rookie, that’s how enthused I was. He responded with 91 rushing yards. Yeah. That happened.

11. Ron Dayne

Let this be a warning to anyone planning on drafting Montee Ball. The success rate of really productive Wisconson running back transitioning to the NFL is not a pretty one. Dayne was a darling coming out of college, and was just miserable as a rookie, with 3.4 yards per carry, 781 total yards and only 5 touchdowns.

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http://fantasysports.org/5-mock-draft-sites-with-adp-to-think-about/#commentsFri, 26 Jul 2013 19:37:24 +0000http://fantasysports.org/?p=3040Any serious fantasy footballer starting doing ESPN mocks back when they opened up in May, has been doing slow e-mail draft mocks on MFL since the lights went out at the Super Bowl, and basically been locked and loaded drafting on all available platforms for month. The beginning of August is when ADP begins to ...

Any serious fantasy footballer starting doing ESPN mocks back when they opened up in May, has been doing slow e-mail draft mocks on MFL since the lights went out at the Super Bowl, and basically been locked and loaded drafting on all available platforms for month. The beginning of August is when ADP begins to normalize and most of the major sites all present a different set of rankings, dependent on the rankers from that site, and while it shouldn’t, it does have a big impact on ADP.

ESPN- The absolute cushiest of ADP, due to large mass of casual players that draft there. Dramatic changes in the player landscape aren’t shown as much in ADP at ESPN due to the massive volume of drafts in their database. ESPN easily has the best drafting client and interface as well. You take what you get when using this platform; the ADP has alot to offer but there will be the odd player that doesn’t belong in the round he’s being taken.

Fantasy Fooball Calculator- Not nearly as pretty as ESPN, but you can see in their mock draft ADP that the players on the site take it more seriously. Despite the fact that some jokers have been selecting Tim Tebow at QB, the rest of the ADP is pretty normalized. The interface isn’t as great as ESPN, but I don’t hate it entirely.

CBS Sports- I have only played one league out on CBS Sports and basically avoid mocking there as much as possible. They have all the pros and cons of ESPN, with a longer wait to get into a mock and a not as nice interface. The Rankers on CBS appear to have a big, big affect on the ADP.

Yahoo!- Whenever possible, you want to look at the ADP of the sites that are getting large traffic numbers because alot of the variance comes out in the wash and you can get a real sense of what the public thinks about a player or a whole round. Other than the high ADP of quarterback’s on Y!, they seem to have it pretty nailed.

MyFantasyLeague- The cream of the crop, the best of the best. I won’t pretend to be a huge fan of the interface of the site or the draft client, but literally everything else about MFL and their ADP is perfect. If you want expert draft ADP, this is where you will find it.

]]>http://fantasysports.org/5-mock-draft-sites-with-adp-to-think-about/feed/0Nine Tips For Naming Your Fantasy Football Teamhttp://fantasysports.org/nine-tips-for-naming-your-fantasy-football-team/
http://fantasysports.org/nine-tips-for-naming-your-fantasy-football-team/#commentsFri, 19 Jul 2013 03:59:26 +0000http://fantasysports.org/?p=2854If you’re not going to have the best team in your league, at least have the best team name. Be original. Yes, Steve’s Breaston’s is hilarious, but that has been used by almost everyone in existence for their team name for the last 5 years. This means that you probably shouldn’t google ‘fantasy football team ...

]]>If you’re not going to have the best team in your league, at least have the best team name.

Be original. Yes, Steve’s Breaston’s is hilarious, but that has been used by almost everyone in existence for their team name for the last 5 years. This means that you probably shouldn’t google ‘fantasy football team names’ and don’t recycle team names from past years. Any of the Mike Ditka’s or Dick Butkus’ names are just tired. You guys are better than that.

Player’s names should be on your team. This is probably personal preference, but it seems pretty important that if you include a player name in your teams name, that player should probably be on your team. So if you want your team name to be “Arian Foster Care”, you should pony up that first round pick for the Texans running back. When you are trying to set your team name, in the preseason, look at your roster and let that mind go wild.

Read Matthew Berry’s new book “A Fantasy Life”. Included in the book are some of the funniest team names in this history of fake football-dom.

Don’t be afraid to change it up midseason, especially to goad your opponents. As far as I’m aware, most leagues don’t have a rule that you have to keep the same name all season long. If you’re play someone who just lost Ray Rice for the week to a low ankle sprain, why not roll “Cooked Rice” out as your team name?

Include the history of your league in your team name if you can; either that or show some real hubris. Nothing is more irritating than playing a guy whose team name is “League Name X Champion 2013”. If you can put someone on tilt with your name, then you need to be doing it!

Rotoworld FB is your friend. The player blurbs cooked up by Nick Mensio, Patrick Daugherty and company normally have some pretty dry humor in them, or hook you up with hilarious little nuggets, like the information that Norv Turner’s real name is Norval.

If it doesn’t make you laugh for at least 35 seconds the first time you think of it, then you need to try harder.

And lastly, my loyal readers, here are a couple suggestions from yours truly for the 2013-14 season:

]]>http://fantasysports.org/nine-tips-for-naming-your-fantasy-football-team/feed/0The Daily MLB Fantasy Pulse- 6-27http://fantasysports.org/the-daily-mlb-fantasy-pulse-6-27/
http://fantasysports.org/the-daily-mlb-fantasy-pulse-6-27/#commentsThu, 27 Jun 2013 19:30:51 +0000http://www.fantasysports.org/?p=2641Yesterday’s Studs Ichiro Suzuki- Did NOT see this one coming. The Yankees offense has been seriously lacking pop, but Ichiro took advantage of the short porch and went 3/4 with a homer and a steal. Mike Trout- If you spent on outfield yesterday, you probably did it with Trout and as he will often do, ...

Ichiro Suzuki- Did NOT see this one coming. The Yankees offense has been seriously lacking pop, but Ichiro took advantage of the short porch and went 3/4 with a homer and a steal.

Mike Trout- If you spent on outfield yesterday, you probably did it with Trout and as he will often do, he rewarded you handsomely with a homer and 2 runs.

Alex Gordon- As a Royals fan, yesterday was pretty cool, but I still wasn’t expecting a big fantasy day for Gordon who went 3/5 with a solo shot and walk off single.

6/27 Pitchers

Samuel Deduno- What? You didn’t Deduno about Samuel? (Sorry, that was just awful guys). In his last outting against KC, Deduno went 6 innings, struck out 5 and gave up exactly 0 runs. Since then, he has been considerably more shaky, inlcuding 4 earned runs in his last outting versus Cleveland, but we have seen Deduno do well against the tough left handed batters in the Royals lineup (ERIC HOSMER IS GOOD), and for his price, the matchup is great.

Jeremy Guthrie- Yep, this is what we are doing here. Look, you can feel free to pay 20% of your cap on Grienke tonight, but I’m certainly not comfortable with it. Both Toronto and Boston are explosive offensively, as are Cleveland and Boston. Minnesota and KC are pathetic offensively 80% of the time and starting Guthrie, whose real problem is home runs, against a punchless lineup, is a pretty solid plan.

6/27 Hitters

J.P Arencibia- Arencibia is a perfect GPP most nights, and on a shortened schedule where I don’t like the matchup for Mauer and Santana has been a bit cold, J.P is the perfect guy against the left handed and homer prone Jon Lester, whose ERA is approaching 5.

Chris Davis- “YOU FOOL! YOU THINK A PUNY MORTAL NAMED COREY KLUBER CAN STOP ME? I HAVE A NEAR 1.300 OPS VERSUS RIGHT HANDERS!!! AHHH!!!”- Chris Davis, somewhere, probably.

Jason Kipnis- Playing Kipnis versus a weak righty worked pretty freaking well yesterday. I feel pretty good about running it back versus Miguel Gonzales.

Mike Moustakas- I know that I said to start Deduno, but on a short night like this, sometimes you have to start a hitter against a pitcher you are playing. Moose is hitting .284 in the month of June and is just much better against righties. For dirt cheap, you can’t do much better.

Jose Reyes- Off the DL and into your lineup. There was some chatter earlier in the season that Lester had found himself, but I’m just quite simply not buying it. The Jays are going to rough him up, and Reyes will be at the top of the order and benefiting.

Yasiel Puig- Mentioning Puig’s splits really isn’t fair, because that would make him a start every single night. However, tonight against Jon Pettibone, I think Puig is a pretty clear start as he’ll be less than some of the other top tier outfielders, with a higher upside.

Dominic Brown- Start the outfielders in the Philly-LAD game, apparently. Brown is slugging .535 off of righties and Grienke just hasn’t been good since Carlos Quentin broke his collarbone.

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http://fantasysports.org/the-daily-fantasy-pulse-6-26/#commentsWed, 26 Jun 2013 19:54:15 +0000http://www.fantasysports.org/?p=2633Yesterday’s Studs Rickie Weeks- Who even is Rickie Weeks, really? I can never get a ready on this guy. Last night, he was able to go 3/4 with a double and TWO home runs. Starling Marte- Marte and our next stud appear to finally be heating up. Marte has just been bad for the last ...

Rickie Weeks- Who even is Rickie Weeks, really? I can never get a ready on this guy. Last night, he was able to go 3/4 with a double and TWO home runs.

Starling Marte- Marte and our next stud appear to finally be heating up. Marte has just been bad for the last month, but last night went 3/5 with a triple and 2 homers.

Allen Craig- Paul Sporer’s life partner and one of my favorite cheaper daily plays with upside, Craig finally had a big game, going 4-5 with a homer.

6-26 Pitchers

Mike Minor- You could roll with Kershawn, Zimmerman or Hamels, but my starter across all platforms is going to be Minor. He’s been very sluggish in his last two games out, which has really lowered his price tag from the upper crust, to the higher sections of tier 2. He’s still striking out 24.% of batters in the month of June and gets a matchup against a team that just isn’t very good. The Royals offense should never scare you, and when they are facing an elite pitcher, it’s likely they just swing themselves into a strikeout oblivion.

Justin Grimm- This is one is stricly from a value standpoint. Playing as a rightie in New York is going to be risky, no matter who that pitcher is. We just saw Yu Darvish give up 3 earned runs to this exact lineup. However, the Yankees are STILL the worst offense over the last 14 days and Grimm is so cheap that two of him don’t even equal Miguel Cabrera on DraftDay.

6-26 Hitters

Jason Castro- Lance Lynn and the magic of the Cardinals aside, Castro is still hitting .289 off of righties, with a .502. He’s cheaper than many options at catcher with the same plausible upside. That’s who I’ll be playing tonight.

Allen Craig- Riding the positive ways of last nights exploits against Erik Bedard, I expect Craig and his .508 SLG versus lefties to play an important role in some DFS victories tonight.

Jason Kipnis- We’ve seen this movie before. Kipnis just an excellent righty masher, slugging .558 versus them and Jason Hammel just gives it up to lefties like it is his job (it is not, in fact, his job) with a .361 wOBA given to left handed batters.

Miguel Cabrera- Cabrera versus an old pitcher with a plus 5 ERA? Who ya got?

Manny Machado- Whatever magic Scott Kazmir had, it is long gone now. He is allowing a .428 wOBA to righties which is just otherworldly bad. Machado is currently hitting above .300 with a .476 SLG%. Get it done.

Jean Segura- Segura is basically becoming my favorite baseball player ever. You just cannot stop him and I don’t think there’s anything special about Scott Feldman.

Austin Jackson- A little under the radar because he missed alot of this season the DL, but Austin Jackson is a legit fantasy All-Star player, someone gets on base, steals, hits home runs and plays in a power lineup. I like a Tigers stack versus Hanson tonight.

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http://fantasysports.org/the-daily-mlb-fantasy-pulse-6-25/#commentsTue, 25 Jun 2013 20:08:46 +0000http://www.fantasysports.org/?p=2621(Author’s note: You guys can feel free to contact me on twitter as it’s closer to lineups locking and more things become clear for the days games. Additionally, Yesterday’s Studs won’t run today and I wasn’t able to get lineups in before lock last night) 6/25 Pitching Chris Sale- There is a TON, TON of ...

]]>(Author’s note: You guys can feel free to contact me on twitter as it’s closer to lineups locking and more things become clear for the days games. Additionally, Yesterday’s Studs won’t run today and I wasn’t able to get lineups in before lock last night)

6/25 Pitching

Chris Sale- There is a TON, TON of great value pitching today. Normally, I would tell you to find some cheap guys with high upside, but tonight, the sky is limit for Sale. Despite getting roughed up by Minnesota last week (how in the hell?), I think Sale comes out blazing versus the Mets tonight. The Mets best hitters, outside of David Wright, struggle with lefties like crazy. The Mets are bottom third in the league against lefties in .wOBA, wRC+ and strike out the 6th most often against them. This is a perfect matchup for Sale to explode for a complete game shutout with 15 K’s.

Jake Westbrook- Over the last 14 days, the Astros have been the 2nd worse offense in baseball. The Yankees have been the worst, which makes Yu Darvish on an equal level with the aforementioned Chris Sale. Westbrook hasn’t exactly been a stud since his return. In his first start off the DL, he got blown up by Miami, but threw 7 shutout innings versus the Cubs. Right now, the Cubs are offensive juggernaut compared to the Astros, who are striking out 25% of the time and are ice cold with only 48 runs scored. Start Westbrook with confidence.

6/25 Hitters

Jarrod Saltalamacchia- Even out of Coors Fields, you want to target leftie hitters against Juan Nicasio. Salty is hitting .345 versus righties at home with 5 homers. Simple and cheap starter for your C slot.

Paul Goldschmidt- Paul Goldschmidt by the 2nd best hitting first basemen, behind Joey Votto. He gets to face an out of sorts Gio Gonzalez, who has allowed at least one earned run in every start since 5-12-13. While I don’t LOVE the matchup, I always want to put Goldy in versus a leftie.

Nick Franklin- HOW IS HE STILL SO CHEAP? I don’t get it. Despite facing the Smoke Monster (Jeff Locke), Franklin has upside that the other filler options at 2B and SS don’t have. Don’t crucify me for saying this (no, actually do, this is such a dumb thing to say), but I FEEL like Franklin could have a big game tonight.

Matt Carpenter- I could easily see this being a “Stack the Lefty Cards” type of night. Lucas Harrell, God bless his heart, allows a .469 SLG% at home and Carpenter is hitting .340 versus righties. This is an easy call.